The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-11-23
COME BACK, wILHELMIN AZ"
Nye Takes an Amusing Fall Out of the Ser.
want Girl Question,

Bill Nye has had en- attack of the servant
girl. and emits this sorrowing screed:
PERSONAL Will the young woman who
edited the gravy department and corrected
jumped the game on the evening that we we're
TO have our clergyman to dine with us.please
come back or write TO % Park Row, saying where
she left the crackers and cheese2 20 80
come back. Wifhelmina, and be our
little sunbeam once more. Come back
much per cluster.
If you think best, we will quit having
company at the house, especially people
who do not belong to your set.
We will also strive, oh, so hard, to make
1T pleasanter for you in every way. II we
bad known four or five years ago that chill
dren were offensive to you it would have
been different. But it is too late now.
ALI we can do now IS to shut them up in
barn and feed them through knot-hole.
If they shrek loud enough to give pain to
your throbbing brow, let no one know,
and we Will overcome any false sentiment
we may feel toward them and send them
to the Tombs.
Since you went away we can see how
wicked and selfith we were and how little
We considered your comfort. We miss
your glad smile, also your Tennessee
marble cake and your slate pie. We have
learned a valuable lesson since you went
away, and it is that the blame should not
have rested on me alone. 1t should have
been divided equally, leaving me to bear
half oft and my wife the other half.
Where we erred was in dividing up the
blame on the basis of tender
compelling you to bear half of il
yourself. That will not work, Wilhelmina.
Blame and preserves do not divide up on
the same basis. We are now in favor of
what may be called a sliding scale. We
think you will like this better.
We also made a grave mistake in the
matter Of nights out. While young, l
| formed the wicked and pernicious habit of
having nights out myself. | painted for
the night air, and would go a long dis
lance and stay out long time to get
| enough of it for mess and then bring ii
home in paper bag, but can see now
that ii is time for Re to remains indoors
and give young people like yourself
/ chance, Wllhelmina.
So II / can do anything evenings while
| you are out that will assist you, such as
stoning raisins or neighboring windows
command me- am no cook, of course,
but can peel apples, OF grind coffee, or
hold your head when you need sympathy.
could also soon learn to do the plain
| cooking, think, and friends who come
to see us after this have agreed to bring
4 buclI uluuclcs
There is no reason why harmony should
not be restored among us and the old SUM-
| light come back to our roof tree.
Another thing wish to write before /
close this humiliating personal. wish to
take back my harsh and bitter words
about your singing. / said that you sang
like shingle mill. but was mad when /
said it, and wronged you. was mad.
dened by hunger, and you told me that
mush and milk was the proper thing for q
brain worker. and you refused to give me
any dope on my dumping. Goaded to
madness by this said that you sang like
q single mill, but II was not my better,
higher nature that spoke. 1t was my
grosser and more gastric nature that as
serted itself, and now desire to take 1t
back. You do not sing like single
mill; at least 20 mnch ~ to mislead a
practical ear.
Your voice has more volume, and when